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Location:

LIVERPOOL,UK

Member Since:

Sep 27, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Triathlons are my New sport and I LOVE IT  

 

Recent last few years  as I havent done much since I was 16/17yrs, on and off injuries, going out with Friends started. Operations on injuries- compartment syndrome front of the shin had small operation to release the pressure on the fascia.

Oct 2007.  Did the great north run.  ( I was in the elite ladies race, against Kara Goucher and Paula Radcliffe, Im sure u Americans will recall that race).

 I was just in on my previous times from the Bath Half Marathon. I ran it as best as I could off my training & circumstances...

 

Decided to do my 1st Marathon with London looming in the following April I was in the ladies Elite race again.  So the training was on.  I realise now I didnt give my body enough time to recover as it did break down in the last 5 weeks of my training. Injury bound, with calf and hamstring problems I raced! 

London Marathon, April 08 (Injury calf issues) 1st marathon  3hrs.12mins .30 secs

Dublin Marathon  Oct 08  3hrs.01mins.13  undulating and 1 toilet stuck/stop (LOL)

Bath Half 2007    1.26.35 hrs

Wilmslow half marathon english champs    1.25.39

18th lady  (With piriformis injury ).

Liverpool 10k 2008 Oct 37.42mins midst marathon training 

Wirral 5k 2009 17.41mins off the back off marathon week 

Track 3000ms 10.45mins  hmmm I ran this to get points for my club so I just did tactical and ran on 1st lady shoulder and sprinted at the end !

 

 

As a youngster

County Champion for Xcountry and

High Jump

and 1500ms track.

pbs aged 13 yrs old

800ms 2mins 16secs

1500ms 4mins 48 secs

high jump 1metre 53  (cant do this now) and I never trained for it as a kid, just competed alot for points for my club, usually spend 2 hours highjumping, and skip off to do an 800 or 1500ms race then go back to high jump, Wish I took the running more seriously!

 

Run on more than several occasions for my County against Ireland county of Dublin.

Top 50 finnisher at 14yrs of age in english nationals Xcountry.


Short-Term Running Goals:

Complete my 1st Triathlon    1st lady   Brinscall  ok this was a triathlon with no timed transition i treated it as a training race to see if I like triathlons and I love them.

Complete off road triathlon  2nd lady.. 12 secs behind my age group world champion.  Tameside triathlon

Complete outdoor water race 1 mile   Salford Great north swim . 29 mins yay

Complete Olympic distance triathlon

Races for 2010  Future races.

Winter Duathlon Series Race 1 - December 12th 2010  Won  overall time 1hr 8 mins 43 secs

winter duathlon series race 2

2011  1st Lady overall time  1hr 09mins 04 secs.

Windy very windy

3rd race Duathlon winter series Feb 20th 2011

 Races for 2011

ITU Duathlon 2011 qualifier                                                               Dambuster Duathlon, East Midlands – 19th March 2011  

Qualifiers ITU Sprint Triathlon 2011 & ETU Sprint Triathlon 2012       Speedy Beaver, East midlands – 29th May 2011

Itu Standard triathlon 2011 qualifier                      Shropshire Triathlon   West Midlands 5th June 2011

ITU Standard Triathlon 2011 & ETU Standard Triathlon 2012             Dambuster Triathlon, East Midlands – 18th June 2011

London Triathlon Hyde Park ITU World Championship series race       6th AUGUST 2011  (practice format hopefully for Beijing)

 

Need to Qualify for GB Team  Beijing World Championships which is on

September 10/11th 2011



 

new pb for 5k 17.41 minsnext running goal for 5k is sub 17.30 mins Summer Track season and road 10k's & 5k's  

Lots of goals, lots of hard work and no play! ;-)

Long-Term Running Goals:


   

training pbs



swim

3750 1hr6mins 

2500 41.37 mins 29th May 2011 

1600ms 27.45

1500ms 24.00  8th April 2011 NEW PB 

500ms 7mins 38 

Cycle

42 miles 2hr 15

25 miles 1hr 15min 00s 

25miles 1hr 9mins 5secs with a decent wind! 11.6.12 

26.25 miles 1hr 12mins boooom :) 

20miles 59.30 mins 

12miles 36 mins 

10 miles 27:44mins new pb after a pb swim 8/4/11

10 miles straight out 26mins 35secs new pb 27/9/11

10 miles on turbo 25mins 35secs 

 Run 9 mile route h/town 1hr 2mins 43secs

5.23 mile route home fishermans coast bypass 

37.04 mins.

 


 

Personal:

 

 


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Ahhhhhhh too much to do in too little time..... My training time was small today and its session day! I was waiting on a phone call too and when I got the phone call I have approx 30 mins to get home urghhh!  more works on the house :-(

 

So I went straight onto the treadmill (sweatmill)

 2 mile warm up 8 min pace - I went on the big treadmill which goes faster yay ! :-)

 

  1. 5.53 mins  this was tough its too hot in my gym
  2. 5.55 mins ok not too bad I was on a good pace
  3. 5.52 mins yay 2 phone calls through my iphone..... oh dear heavy breathing aint good to the sky man lol he thought it was funny but Im not jeapodising my mile rep for nobody, and I had to take the call as it was blocked and it was the call I was waiting for phhhht, 2nd call was hubby Paul "IM running huff puff"  reply "ok" that was funny too! Im such a goof ball lol ;-) 

 

 

2 mile warm down 8 min pace...... and ran out the gym

I was so tired going into this training session that I wasnt sure I would get through it, but I did thankfully :-) happy I got it over with though bl**dy mile reps ;) 

 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From vinh on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 21:51:06 from 71.68.254.197

Nice workout! Can't believe you answered your phone at that pace lol. Again, you make it look easy =P Hopefully the house is done soon.

From Adam RW on Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 22:23:54 from 24.10.175.42

Considering how tired you were I would say that was a good workout.

From Teena on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 00:31:06 from 174.52.45.85

How in the world can you talk on the phone while running sub 6s!!!???

Also, thanks for your comment on my son's blog (P-dawg). It meant a lot to him!

Incredible workout!! :)

From Mark on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:29:46 from 24.129.132.74

Great workout as usual, treadmill speedwork can get very sweaty!

Hopefully you won't start getting phone calls on your fast treadmill workouts from people who want to see how well you can talk on the phone when pushing the pace.

From ChrisM on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 15:39:41 from 86.144.115.212

Yay for getting on the big treadmill!

Sam I need your mobile phone number LOL

From Sandy Dune-Howard on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 16:01:19 from 90.201.147.153

Vinh- thanks I dont usually answer the phone doing fast sessions, lol the thing is I had to answer the phone on my Sunday run too, and I didnt want to stop then either as I was doing so well..... maybe I should just leave it behind, but I take it for safety :)

Adam- yeah I was whacked yesterday and made up I plowed through that session.

Teena- whos your son? I know madness the phone !

Mark- thats funny LOL and yes sweat rating was really high really high :(

Chris- no - 0800 80 33 44 LMAO

From Teena on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 16:47:13 from 75.162.113.253

Here is the link to my son's blog

http://p-dawg.fastrunningblog.com/

I need to get him to post more of his runs. He is quite funny for a 10 year old! :)

From seeaprilrun on Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 17:39:34 from 205.172.12.229

I don't know how you can talk running at that speed! How much recovery do you do between mile repeats? I am interested in trying them but don't know how much to recover in between or exactly what pace I should do them at. 5k pace? Dream 5k pace?

From Sandy Dune-Howard on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:41:45 from 78.32.130.9

Teena, how good is your son blogging at his age I think thats great...... My son wouldnt be bothered but he does lots of sport :)

April, I dont usually talk when doing mile reps LOL

It depends if I am going for quality or quantity. at the moment I am taking 3-3.30 mins for recovery.

If it's you 1st mile reps, just do 2 for the first time, or maybe 3 and take 4-5 mins recovery go out at your 10k pace. Another way to make sure your going at the right pace etc, is to see how quickly your h/r returns to 120bpm after the mile reps, if it returns within 1min 30 secs your doing it right if it takes longer your going to fast and not enough recovery.

i.e if you did say get up to 5 x 1mile and your recovery was fine h/r wise inbetween and upto mile 4 then it took 2 mins before the 5th mile you have not got enough recovery between the reps.

Now if its quality you go faster and have 6 mins recovery if need be and do only a few mile reps.

On my faster mile reps when Im really fit, and doing quality I have done 5.15 mins :-)))) but only did 3 reps with 6 mins recovery

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